This Central American workshop, builds on a 2014 “Caribbean Knowledge Exchange Workshop on Rainwater Harvesting” in St. Lucia hosted by GWP Caribbean and Partners.  At that workshop, two representatives from GWP Central America participated and gained valuable knowledge about RWH best practices in the Caribbean. To continue the collaboration and

The Water Director of Uruguay, Mr Daniel Greif, the Director of theMontevideo Training Centre of the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), Mr Manuel de la Iglesia-Caruncho, and the Regional Coordinator of GWP South America, Ms Lucía Matteo, opened the event in the premises of AECID.

The Water Director indicated that “the

GWP delegates will take part in the up-coming UN Climate Change Conference COP22, 7-18 November in Marrakech, Morocco. The objective is to promote support for the implementation of the Paris Agreement, in connection to water and climate change adaptation. The Paris Agreement enters into force on 4 November 2016.

“When I joined GWP in March 2003, it was a very different GWP than today. My job was more about programme management – which suited me, because that was my background – and later the job gradually transformed into a governance and management role as the partnership grew. The Regional Water Partnerships had only started to form a couple of years